Compton v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that \[b]urglary [is] primarily an offense against the security of the habitation\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cheng v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-06-08· cited 243×
• Yeatts v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-09-20· cited 92×
• McLane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1960-10-10· cited 49×
• Allard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-01-28· cited 48×
• Rash v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-09-05· cited 30×
• State v. Spicer
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1978-07-14· cited 29×
• Lacey v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-04-28· cited 25×
• Timmons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-03-04· cited 23×
• Giles v. Com.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-02-27· cited 21×
• Jackson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-04-21· cited 17×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1957-12-02· cited 14×
• Adams v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1959-11-30· cited 13×
• Dalton v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-06-02· cited 11×
• Charles Jayson Beck, s/k/a Charles Jason Beck v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2016-04-26· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Kilgore
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-02-12· cited 7×
• Tucker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-12-21· cited 7×
• Giles v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-04-08· cited 5×
• Hitt v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-07-13· cited 5×
• Lyons v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1963-06-10· cited 4×
• United States v. Bryant
  W.D. Virginia· 2017-02-15· cited 3×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McDorman v. Smyth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1948-04-26· cited 31×
• Gillock v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1898-02-14· cited 25×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1898-11-19· cited 23×
• Wilson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1932-01-14· cited 23×
• Boyd v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-03-19· cited 22×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-12-07· cited 21×
• Gunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1906-06-25· cited 15×
• Bateman v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1944-11-20· cited 13×
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-09-17· cited 8×